As the prosecution is describing the timeline, a trans panic or gay panic strategy would, with the evidence that the prosecution has stated in court it will present, be impossible to support. And, that’s because a trans panic/gay panic defense is a crime of passion strategy: If, as suggested, Allen Ray Andrade knew Angie was transgender 36-hours before he killed her, then this wasn’t a crime of passion.

And, since the defense is using a classic gay panic/trans panic/blame-the-victim strategy — the defense using the hated language of “deceptive” to describe Angie in their opening statement, and using the language of “supposedly female” to describe Angie in questions posed to witnesses in cross-examination later in the day — and if the prosecution uses can adequately support their opening statement assertions in their presentation to the jurors, then this alleged 36-hour awareness of her transgender status would destroy the veracity of the defense assertions.